Linux Mint 4.0 Beta "Fluxbox", 4.0 Alpha "Debian"

Clement Lefebvre announced the release of Linux Mint 4.0 Fluxbox CE Beta 028, the first ever release of a Fluxbox-based Linux Mint Community Edition, which will be followed by a stable release: "The first BETA of Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna Fluxbox Community Edition was released. Maintained in Romania by Shane Joe Lazar, this edition replaces Gnome with Fluxbox to provide a much more lightweight operating system." Follow the announcement and the release notes for related information. Also announced is Linux Mint 4.0 Debian Edition Alpha 023, labelled as Alpha to show that it is a preview and won't be followed by any Beta or stable release: "We ported our desktop on top of Debian Testing and the result is very interesting. This Alpha release comes as a non-installable liveCD and gives an idea of how Linux Mint would behave if it was to switch base and adopt Debian as its supporting technology." The announcement and the release notes. Download: LinuxMint-4.0-Fluxbox-BETA-028.iso (513MB, MD5) and LinuxMint-4.0-Debian-ALPHA-023.iso (695MB, MD5).